Ridgefield came close to being home to three governors. In 1902, only a year after Ridgefield Republican George E. Lounsbury left office, Melbert B. Cary of West Lane ran for governor on the Democratic ticket – he had been chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee for several years. Cary lost to a Meriden Republican, but remained a power in state government as well as influential in Ridgefield goings on. A Princeton man who was a lawyer in New York City, Mr. Cary was also a writer, whose books included The Connecticut Constitution (1900) and The Woman Without A Country and, when he was in his 80s, the novel Back Stage. He was also longtime president of the board of Flower Hospital in New York. He died in 1946 at the age of 93; at the time he was the oldest living Princeton graduate. He was the husband of Julia Metcalf Cary. His obituary appeared in The Ridgefield Press 3/21/1946
Ridgefield came close to being home to three governors. In 1902, only a year after Ridgefield Republican George E. Lounsbury left office, Melbert B. Cary of West Lane ran for governor on the Democratic ticket – he had been chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee for several years. Cary lost to a Meriden Republican, but remained a power in state government as well as influential in Ridgefield goings on. A Princeton man who was a lawyer in New York City, Mr. Cary was also a writer, whose books included The Connecticut Constitution (1900) and The Woman Without A Country and, when he was in his 80s, the novel Back Stage. He was also longtime president of the board of Flower Hospital in New York. He died in 1946 at the age of 93; at the time he was the oldest living Princeton graduate. He was the husband of Julia Metcalf Cary. His obituary appeared in The Ridgefield Press 3/21/1946
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The other side of the Cary stone is devoted to the Curtis family, including Madeleine Cary Curtis.
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